What is a BOF?

Birds Of a Feather, or BOFs, are where people of like interests flock together – small, focused talks or group sessions for 60 minutes with just the people you need to meet. Any attendee can propose a BOF. They are currently scheduled for Monday and Tuesday evening from 8pm to 10pm.

This year, we've scheduled at some of our BOF's before ApacheCon starts, so they will appear in the conference schedule; this should reduce some of the confusion about which room is which from last year...

To Request a BOF:

We're looking for a few good BOF ideas - Birds Of a Feather talks in the evenings between 8pm-10pm at the upcoming ApacheCon-US 2004. If you have a subject idea you think would be popular at the show, please submit it now! We're working on pre-scheduling at least half of our BOFs this week, so they'll be available in the printed schedule at the show.

ALSO: Looking to share a room? Find out the weather before you go? Connect with other attendees before the show? Come participate in the wiki for this year's ApacheCon-US:

http://wiki.apache.org/ApacheCon/FrontPage

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  To Request A BOF, send me an email per below. Thanks.

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  [SendTo]: shane_curcuru@yahoo.com Subject: [BOF] One line title for your BOF

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  BOF Title: One line title for your BOF

Orientation: Technical | Business | Developer Level: Novice | Experienced | Expert Days: Mon | Tue | Either

Categories: (choose most applicable)
Anti-Spam, Apache HTTP Server, Case Study, Databases,
E-Commerce, Java, New Technologies, Performance, Perl,
PHP, Python, Ruby, Security, Windows, XML

Abstract:
Provide a one-paragraph description of what you want to talk about and what communities you believe would be interested in joining this BOF.

Stay tuned here for the latest schedule!